Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-24

II, ds some writer aSSerts, -tne mountains
have ever been the home of freedom" yet
the seaside has always been the nursery of
intellect. The great poets, artists orators,
historians, statesmen and engineers of Eu-
rope and America have, with few exceptions,
been born and raised within sight and sound
of the sea. Those babies who shall have the
good luck to be born at Lucadia will in the
next century, be famous, for Lcucadia is to be
the home OF mauy artists and authors,
whose children, both with respect to their
parents and their birthplace, will be ''born in
the purple"
You cannot overstate the advantages of
such country-yOu cannot over-boom it.
Here 1t is. 1t talks for itself with voices of
health and of beauty; voices of healing and
of life; voices of vigorous ozone and entic-
ing balm; voices of Christmas roses aud of
oleanders and lilies blooming in the Jan
uary sunshine.
OF course it is new; of course it is little
crude in some things; of course the Opera
houses are yet to be built, and the system of
| sewage yet to be perfected, but if you are in
clined to complain of these things inst turn
to the telegraph column and read; ;"Chicago,
November, 1S37.-The thermometer at the
Signal Service Office this morning registered
80 degrees below zero. A Minnesota zephyr
is approaching at the rate of 80 miles
hour" Then, again, we will have the
Opera Houses and mansions and drives very
soon, and we never will have the billiards.
or the snow.
blind man ought to be able to see that
the tide nf b,r o,t-ill h,, hat 6
the Pontic sea, which meier knows return
ing ebb." We have an exceedingly rich and
prosperous people-overy sixty millions
and wealth has accumulated since the war
even in greater ratio than the population.
Money is "a drug at 4 per cent. per annum
| There are more people in the United States
this day who are able to live upon their in
| comes, than there are in Great Britain, Ger
many or Russia. These people have filed
Florida with costly mansions-habitable
only for three or four months in the year,
and they have lined the Atlantic sea-co asst
with summer cities, where the hotels and
cottages are tenantless from October until
June. They are now coming here and
| in five years there will be houses facing the
sea, within stones throw OF each other all
| the way from Santa Monica to San Diego
bay.
And of all these miles of coast no place
presents so many attractions as Leucadia
The beach in front OF it is better than at any
and the surf is very light, and for driving
purposes there is not such a beach on the
coast. 1t is Il tweutymile track in perfect
condition. swept and sprinkled and graded
by the tide twice each day, and the tide IL
the best and most economical superintcnd
ent of roads in the country. An abundant
supply OF water for all purposes will be
piped along every avenue, and the little
city WILL within "a season or two, be en-
powered in foliage. Leucadia is about two
thirds OF the way to San Diego by the new
Railroad Company, and will com mand the
trade of the rich valleys adjacent.
There is only one other such place as Leu
cadia in the world. 1t is a little city on the
Mediterranean, at the foot of the Alps, called
MentOne. Sam Cox immortalized the spo
in his search for Winter Sunbeams'; anC
at Mentone the conditions are not as perfec
as at Leucadia, for once in while tht
"mistrael sweeps down on Mentone, anC
the landlords Golfers are depleted by the
cost of providing fire for the other cough
ers." "a horrible pun, but all tastes mus
be copsulted)
Lots in Mentone SO feet front, sell for SO,
600 francs. Lots in Leucadia ought to sell a
the auction, October 10Th, 1887, for $4,000
each, but the chances are they will go at
less figure.
If you want home, secure one at Leuca
dia. You will never be able to do better. II
you want to invest and earn three or foul
hundred per cent. advance, here is your
chance, for there are plenty rich asthmatics
consumptives and brOnchiters and blizzard
haters who will want Leucadia lots by an6
by, and who will pay any price asked fol
them; and Nature has limited the supply o.
such combinations of sea and shore, and
soil, and sky and climate, and their m anu
facture is not progressing fast enough te
make it likely that the market will be over
stocked during this century. 1t takes al
least one cataclysm to lay the foundations oi
such a paradise as Leucadia, and about
forty thousand years to bleach the mineral
salts out of the soil so as to make it fit fol
orange trees.
We want those enterprising people who
are here now to get the advantage of present
prices. We are willing that those who
come next year shall pay two or three hun
dred per cent advance; and they will have
to pay 1t whether we are willing or not
You think this is a boom, do you? Well, it is
hardly the beginning of boom. People will
pour in here during the coming year by the
thousands and tens of thousands. They will
| oyerrun shore and valley and mountain
side. All such town lots as those at Leuca-
dia will be snatched up quickly. Be wise in
time and secure some of them while they
can be bought for hundreds. After while
they will sell for thousands.